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English | ASIN: B0C5ZH99NF | 2023 | 13 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 378 MB
Author: Dr. Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay
Narrator: Natalie Robitaille
Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a magnanimous cornerstone of the Canadian state, developed in lockstep with colonial control over Indigenous land and life. Pathogens are storytellers of their time. The 500-year-old debate over the origins of syphilis reflects colonial judgments of morality and sexuality that became formally entwined in medicine. Smallpox is notoriously linked with the project of land theft, as colonizers destroyed Indigenous land, economies and life in the name of disease eradication.